Verse 5

LORDE, let me knowe myne ende, and the nombre of my dayes: that I maye be certified what I wante.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Sela. As for men, they are but vayne, me are disceatfull: vpo the weightes they are al together lighter then vanite itself.
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 Sela. LORDE, how longe wilt thou hyde thy self? For euer? shal thy wrath burne like fyre?
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like a thinge of naught, his tyme passeth awaye like a shadowe.
  • Eccl 1:2 : 2 All is but vanite (saieth ye preacher) all is but playne vanite.
  • Eccl 2:11 : 11 But whan I considered all the workes yt my handes had wrought, and all the labours that I had taken therin: lo, all was but vanite and vexacion of mynde, & nothinge of eny value vnder ye Sonne.
  • Isa 40:17 : 17 All people in comparison of him, are rekened, as nothinge, yee vayne vanite and emptynesse.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 & yet ca not tell what shal happe to morowe. For what thinge is youre life? It is euen a vapoure that apereth for a lytell tyme, and the vanysheth awaye:
  • 2 Pet 3:8 : 8 Dearly beloued, be not ignoraunt of this one thinge, how that one daye is with the LORDE as a thousande yeare: and a thousande yeare as one daye.
  • Ps 90:4-5 : 4 For a thousande yeares in thy sight are but as yesterdaye that is past, and like as it were a night watch. 5 As soone as thou scatrest them, they are euen as a slepe, and fade awaye sodenly like the grasse.
  • Ps 90:9-9 : 9 For when thou art angrie, all or dayes are gone, we brynge or yeares to an ende, as it were a tayle that is tolde. 10 The dayes of oure age are iij. score yeares & ten: & though men be so stronge that they come to iiij. score yeares, yet is their strength then but laboure and sorowe: so soone passeth it awaye, & we are gone.
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 Iacob sayde: The tyme of my pylgremage is an hudreth and thirtie yeares: litle and euell is the tyme of my pilgremage, and attayneth not vnto the tyme of my fathers in their pylgremages.
  • Job 7:6 : 6 my dayes passe ouer more spedely, the a weeuer can weeue out his webbe, and are gone, or I am awarre.
  • Job 9:25-26 : 25 My dayes haue bene more swifte, then a runner: they are gone sodenly, and haue sene no good thinge. 26 They are passed awaye, as the shippes that be good vnder sale, and as the Aegle that haisteth to the pray.
  • Job 14:1-2 : 1 Man that is borne of a woman, hath but a shorte tyme to lyue, and is full of dyuerse miseries. 2 He cometh vp, and falleth awaye like a floure. He flyeth as it were a shadowe, and neuer continueth in one state.
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 When thou punyshest man for synne, thou chastenest him: so that his beutie consumeth awaye, like as it were a mothe. O how vayne are all men?